ORGANIZATION AND INTELLIGENCE

Giriraj Swami wrote:

We remember Srila Prabhupada's last days with us--and our last exchanges with him. Srila Prabhupada was in Vrindavan then, and we didn't know how long he would be with us. He was so weak. He would just lie on his bed and speak only with great difficulty. We felt any word Srila Prabhupada uttered might be his last.

One night I was sleeping on the roof of the gurukula building and around midnight one devotee woke me: "Prabhupada is calling you! Prabhupada is calling!" Immediately I got up and went down to Srila Prabhupada's room. I didn't know what to expect. Why did Srila Prabhupada call me? What did he want to say? The silent intensity in Prabhupada's room heightened my anticipation. Is he going to give his final instruction?

Srila Prabhupada lay in an internal state of consciousness. I waited in the silence.
Finally Prabhupada asked me, "Do you think this movement will go on without me?" I replied, "As long as we are sincere and chant Hare Krishna and follow the regulative principles, the movement will go on." Srila Prabhupada listened. Then, again with great difficulty and ever so softly, Srila Prabhupada responded. He uttered the word, "Organization. Organization and intelligence."

I was startled. But later I considered the significance of Srila Prabhupada's pragmatic reply. Although sincerely chanting sixteen rounds and following the regulative principles are the basis of Krishna consciousness, intelligence and organization are also required, especially to spread Krishna consciousness and fulfill Srila Prabhupada's and Lord Krishna's mission.

JEALOUS

You can't be jealous and be a leader.

- Mick Jagger

RESPECT FOR EVERYONE

Jiva Gosvami, commenting on this verse, says that Krsna, in His plenary expansion as Paramatma, is situated in the moving and the nonmoving entities as the Supersoul, so any neophyte devotee who simply gives his attention to the arca-murti, the form of the Supreme Lord in the temple, and does not respect other living entities is uselessly worshiping the form of the Lord in the temple. There are three kinds of devotees of the Lord, and the neophyte is in the lowest stage. The neophyte devotee gives more attention to the Deity in the temple than to other devotees, so Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura warns that this sort of mentality should be corrected. A devotee should see that because Krsna is present in everyone's heart as Paramatma, every body is the embodiment or the temple of the Supreme Lord; so as one offers respect to the temple of the Lord, he should similarly properly respect each and every body in which the Paramatma dwells. Everyone should therefore be given proper respect and should not be neglected.

Bg 9.11 Purport

RESPECT FOR EVERYONE

Krsna, in His plenary expansion as Paramatma, is situated in the moving and the nonmoving entities as the Supersoul, so any neophyte devotee who simply gives his attention to the arca-murti, the form of the Supreme Lord in the temple, and does not respect other living entities is uselessly worshiping the form of the Lord in the temple. There are three kinds of devotees of the Lord, and the neophyte is in the lowest stage. The neophyte devotee gives more attention to the Deity in the temple than to other devotees, so Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura warns that this sort of mentality should be corrected. A devotee should see that because Krsna is present in everyone's heart as Paramatma, every body is the embodiment or the temple of the Supreme Lord; so as one offers respect to the temple of the Lord, he should similarly properly respect each and every body in which the Paramatma dwells. Everyone should therefore be given proper respect and should not be neglected.

Bg 9.11 Purport